An Accidental Programmer Exploring 19thC Literature

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In September, I presented a paper which discussed the application of vector space models to a corpus of Jane Austen’s published novels at the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities Conference in Tokyo. The paper was titled ‘Jane Austen in Vector Space: Applying vector space models to 19th century literature’ and outlined some of the findings …

Possibly the most common entry level visualisation in computational textual analysis is the word cloud. There are multiple online tools (the best known probably being Wordle) which allow you to create them in all sorts of styles. A word cloud can be very useful for identifying frequent terms at a glance, or to indicate possible …